Deportation

Dallas County commissioners sought legal advice about how to comply with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement recent operations.

Demonstrators marched from City Hall to the West End and Deep Ellum Sunday, Feb. 2, protesting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement sweeps targeting immigrants.

The state has vowed to assist the president in his efforts to revamp immigration. But the state’s biggest cities and school districts are more reluctant to help.

With President Trump back in office, Mexico's President Sheinbaum braces for strained relations. U.S. public support for hardline policies targeting Mexico is on the rise, and looming energy reforms and trade negotiations add to the challenges.

Groups are urging the state’s estimated 1.6 million undocumented migrants to prepare financially and make plans for their loved ones if they’re detained.

In a divided political climate, many now hold their breath, waiting to see if deportation rhetoric becomes reality. Some question whether the immigrant pursuit of “a better life” still has meaning.

Texas builders warn mass deportations of undocumented migrants could devastate the construction industry, threatening housing and infrastructure work in one of the nation's fastest-growing states.

A federal judge on Thursday struck down a Biden administration policy that aimed to ease a path to citizenship for some undocumented immigrants who are married to U.S. citizens.

School vouchers and border security are the focus of a special legislative session beginning this week in the Texas Statehouse. Both are key issues for the state's Republican governor.

A growing number of young people with parents who are high-skilled immigrant workers may be forced to leave the country. These “documented Dreamers” grow up in the U.S., but because of the visa backlog, aren’t allowed to stay.

The American Civil Liberties Union and the Deported Veterans Support House in Tijuana, Mexico, have launched a campaign urging the Biden administration to bring home deported veterans — those who served in the U.S. military only to be later exiled from the country.

Immigrant advocates want those asylum protections restored quickly, erasing Trump-era restrictions. "Women, children, families are being sent back to the very dangers that they fled," one lawyer says.